Outline

Federative Republic of Brazil

General
Population for Brazil: 176.009.706 m
Area:

26 States

total: 8,511,965 sq km
land: 8,456,510 sq km
water:
55,455 sq km

9,629,091
9,158,960
470,131

Population growth rate: 0.91%

Birth rate: 18.45 births/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate: 36.96 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth: 63.24 years
Exports: $55.1 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Coffee, Soybeans, Wheat, Rice, Corn, Sugar cane, Cocoa
Beef, Iron, Planes

Imports: $55.8 billion (f.o.b., 2000)

Machinery, Oil, Electricity

Education
IBGE
Investment in Education: 3%
Education organization: Primary 8 years
Secondary 3 years
Higher Education
Primary enrollment :
(Free)
58% > 27.5 million primary school
(75%) FINISH
Secondary enrollment :
1.4% > 10.3 million secondary school
Universities: All states have one
68 major world wide accredited Universities
35 are Federal
Professor/student ratio: 1:24
Literacy: total population: 83.3%

Production
Agriculture
Farm Products

P r o d u c t i o n (tons)
2001
2002
Change%

Herbaceous cotton (seed)

2 640 122

2 282 949

-13.53

Rice (in husk)

10 195 420

10 507 528

3.06

st

1 356 056

1 420 761

4.77

st

908 172

844 616

-7

Potatoes 3 harvest

st

523 154

410 774

-21.48

Cacao beans

184 275

191 325

3.83

Coffee beans

1 918 232

2 348 135

22.41

Sugar cane

345 941 492

361 130 797

4.39

Onions

1 030 668

1 076 085

4.41

st

1 203 079

1 667 243

38.58

st

914 962

1 209 421

32.18

Beans (grain) 3 harvest

st

318 315

288 315

-9.42

Oranges

16 843 620

18 580 753

10.31

Cassava

22 479 371

22 225 897

-1.13

st

35 100 398

29 430 207

-16.15

Corn (grain) 2 harvest

st

6 338 768

6 181 528

-2.48

Soybeans (grain)

37 683 083

41 824 375

10.99

Wheat

3 260 834

4 157 230

27.49

Potatoes 1 harvest
Potatoes 2 harvest

Beans (grain) 1 harvest

Beans (grain) 2 harvest

Corn (grain) 1 harvest

The Brazilian Agricultural Research

Corporation
April 26, 1973
Mission is to provide feasible solutions for the
sustainable development of the Brazilian agribusiness
by generating, adapting and transferring knowledge
and technology that benefits the Brazilian Society.
Present in almost all the states of the Union, each
with its own ecological conditions
9000 technologies for Brazilian
agriculture
1002 Ph.D & 961 M.Sc.

EMBRAPAS ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

ADMINISTRATIVE
COUNCIL

INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION
COOPERATION

CONGRESS
CONGRESS
RELATIONS
RELATIONS

PUBLIC
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
RELATIONS

RESEARCH
RESEARCH

EXECUTIVE
DIRECTORSHIP
DIRECTOR

DIRECTORS
DIRECTORS
OFFICE
OFFICE

DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT

UNIVERSITIES
UNIVERSITIES

RESEARCH
RESEARCH
UNITS
UNITS

LEGAL
LEGAL
ADVISORY
ADVISORY

TRAINING
TRAINING
Extension
Extension

STRATIGIC
STRATIGIC
MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT

Embrapa's Top Priority Programs

1.

Appraisal, Management and reclamation

Of Natural Resources
. Organizing and systematizing information on
natural resources

2. Genetic Resources & Biotechnology

. Conservation of genetic resources
3. Biotechnology
. Based on market oriented demands
. Developing new varieties resistant to stress from
agroecological systems

Embrapa's Top Priority Programs

4. Grain Production
. Production technology for
grains
. Soybeans, rice, beans corn and sorghum,
wheat, sunflower, cowpea, barley, and triticale
5. Vegetable Production
. The generation of technology processes, knowledge
and competitive products for the fruit, vegetable and
cassava sectors
6. Animal Production
. Developing techniques and strategies for the rational
exploration of the main species important for the
economy

Embrapa's Top Priority Programs

7. Environmental Quality

. Evaluating environmental quality and

agricultural sustainability
8. Small Farm Agriculture
Generate or adapt technology and know how
capable of establishing a developmental process,
better conditions for the stability and multiplication
of small farming units and in this way better the
quality of life of the small farmer and his family
founded on greater integration of market economy
conditions

40 Research Units,
and 15 central units
Embrapa co-ordinates
the National
Agricultural Research
System, consisting of
universities, research
institutes and state
research corporations.
The company has
ongoing technical and
scientific co-operation
programs with more
than 150 institutions
from 56 countries.

Research Units
BEEF CATTLE
Para
GOATS
Ceara
COTTON
Paraiba

CERRADOS
Acre
BEEF CATTLE
Mato Grosso

COFFEE
Brasilia
RICE & BEANS
Goiania

FORESTRY
Parana

SOYBEANS
Parana

WHEAT
Rio Grande

DAIRY CATTLE
Minas Gerais
Swine & Poultry
Santa Catarina

Embrapa's research has enabled

Brazil to significantly increase
Agriculture production.
Soybean production has increased by
360%; maize, by 128%; wheat, by 49%;
and rice and beans, by 27%.
Research has also enabled farmers
to produce soybean in the cerrado,
to eliminate numerous pests and to
grow fruit in the semi-arid region.
It has also developed alternative
logging techniques that prevent
the destruction of forests.

BRASILIA FEDERAL DISTRIC

Characterization,
conservation and
utilization of the natural resources
Development of alternatives to improve
production systems in agriculture and
livestock farming,
Development of agroforestal
and silvipastoral systems
Sustainable management
of native forests and silviculture
Soils Maps

Research center for the development of:

Cotton,
Sisal,
Peanut,
Sesame seed
Castor oil tree cultures
Genetic improvement
Development non-irrigated and
irrigated production systems
Integrated pest management
Biological control of cotton pests

868.170 Mt

The research unit operates in all national territory

Genetic improvement Phytosanitary
Rice and beans cultural management
Technology transfer
Rice: 10.207.20 Mt
Development of the long and fine grain cultivars
as rotational crop with soybean and for consortium
with pastures under irrigation by aspersion.
Number one in Production of beans
Phaseolus vulgaris 2.5 Mt / year
Developed system for regeneration of
degraded
pasture using rice or maize as carrier.

Promotion of coffee research

Socio-economic studies and coffee harvests forecasts
Agroclimatology and physiology
Coordination of the Brazilian Coffee Research
Harvest, post-harvest and quality
Genetic and improvement of the coffee plant
Industrial processes
Technological transfer and diffusion
Pests, diseases and nematodes of the coffee plant
Number one (31.1 million bags of 60k)

Nutrition and food

Health and reproduction
Meat, leather, milk and by-products processing
Management of native and cultivated pastures
Frozen semen and embryos
Buffel and Gramo grass seeds
Cheese and other dairy products
Prevention and control of diseases
Reproduction and genetic improvement
Meat : 35.500 Mt

System for Monitoring Fires

Reforestation
Biological control of pests
Integrated forest and agricultural production
Management of natural and planted forests
Assistance and training in forest issues
Laboratory analysis of soil, plants, seed
and lumber
High Temporal Resolution Orbital
Reforestation of Degraded Areas

Animal improvement, reproduction and management

Animal nutrition
Animal health
Introduced 3 types of grass cultivars, which are
responsible for 90% of the tropical forage seed
Vaccine against bovine sadness parasitosis

Brangus-Ibag

US: 76.6 M/LTS (1)

BR: 22.6 M/LTS (6)

Animal management
Genetic improvement
Quality of milk
Rural economy
Elephant grass, Pennisetum purpureum
6 animals per hectare per year
11 kilos of milk/cow/day
Genetic improvement of forages
Control of ticks, bovine sadness parasitosis,
Worms and mastitis
Embryo transfer
Strategies for cross-breeding and genetic evaluation
Milk production systems

Production :
Productivity :
Area
:

75.38 M/ton
2560 T/ha
29.43 sq/km

35.5
2610
9.85

Genetics and improvement of soybean and sunflower

Soil and cultivation management of soybean,
sunflower and wheat
Application of soybean in human diets
Integrated control of pests

Genetic improvement of winter cereals,

soybean and corn
Biological control
Biotechnology
Soil and cultivation management
Embrapa 16 cultivar
Resistant to soil acidity, stem rust and
mosaic virus
Presents a superior industrial quality,
appropriate for bread making and pastas

3.260.124 Mt

C.F

6.671.000 Mt

Canchim Cattle
5/8 Charolais and 3/8 Nelore

Buffalo meat production

Development and modernization of of breeding systems

Genetic improvement on animals
6.222.700 Mt chicken
Animal health
1.582.700 Mt Eggs
Production of vaccines
Animal production and nutrition
The laying hen Embrapa ll
hybrid chicken resulting from the cross between
selected Leghorn lines